Wow! I'm apprioximately 50 pages away from finishing one of the best books I've ever read...everyone I run into hears about Derrick Jensen's book A Language Older Then Words. The back cover says it is a personal memoir/nature physophy, but I don't think that accurately describes it at all...
Derrick Jensen is the survoir of a tragically hard childhood, but unfortunately, the hardships that happened to him aren't his alone to bear. So many millions of children suffer the same types of sexual/emotional abuse he describes. But Derrick is one of those amazing few who doen't end up using his abuse as an excuse to abuse others, to drink, to have a drug habit. In fact, Derrick equates his father's "illness" as he calls it, to the illness of our overall culture...he says our civilization is sick the way a person who burns babies with a cigarette is sick...and in fact, the one feeds the other.
He is an amazing writer and he will get you to see the link between breast cancer and plutonium, salmon and wage-slaves, abusive fathers and oppressive educational systems...
Anyway, if you want to really open your eyes to the horrors of the world, all the while enjoying a great story about a young man growing up and learning who he is, at his core (and reading some amazing interviews he did with scientists and naturalists around the world,) then I highly recommend this book! Read it and remember...the hope of the world rests with you!
Love ya,
Carrot
Sounds like a good one! Thanks for the recommendation!
My reading list is full to the brim. Monkey Wrench Gang, Silent Spring among others. But yer review has me convinced that I'll need another.
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